team blog

Updated: issue corrected in new version of Action(s) 1.1.8 - sorry for the inconvenience

Since a few days, some users might have a warning message displayed when launching Action(s):

or

This is due to the fact that our current certificate has expired and is currently being renewed. It will be updated in a few days and the message will not appear anymore.

In the meantime, we suggest useds to select the "Allow trust content from this publisher" option or the "Allow all applications from app.jbbres.com with this signature" option and click on the "Run" or "Allow" button.

Action(s) got the honors of the Serbian TV in the Interfejs [Interfaces] TV program.Interfejs is one of the most popular program on Serbian TV, with 400.000 viewers every week, so we are very proud that they decided to present our application in their show:If, like me, you unfortunatelly do not understand Serbian, you can still discover the content of the article in English with Google Translate.

At app.jbbres.com, we found their introduction very interresting as it reflects exactly what we have been trying to achieve with Action(s):

If you ask customers what is the most important thing that has changed with the usage of computers, we believe that in many cases the answer will be: "Now it is possible to do many tasks and routines much faster and with more efficiently than before." A statement with which we entirely agree. Nevertheless, the degree of automation depends on the capabilities of your tools. If you have to perform a set of actions and steps, and nobody has ever written a program with such a purpose, you’re left with not some many solutions.

Today we are proud to announce a new set of actions available from the More Actions website:The Additional Internet Actions Pack offers a brain new action, Get icon URLs from Webpage, that allow you to download the favicons of a website. This action event manages the website icon for Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) if any.

One of the great actions that Action(s) provides is the Rename Files action.

Especially, using the add date mode, you can add a date to the file name using various date formats. By default, Rename Files provides 7 formats:

Date and Time Format

Example

dd MMMMM yyyy

29 March 2011

dd-MM-yy

29-03-11

MM-dd-yy

03-29-11

yyyyMMdd

20110329

dd-MM-yy hh.mm.ss

29-03-11 17.42.12

h.mm a

5.42 pm

hh.mm

17.42

But you can also create your own format if the ones provided does not answer your need. It is very easy. Action(s) interprets different letters as date and time codes and replaces them by their values. You can combine the codes to create your own format.Here are the available iddentifiers:

Text can be quoted using single quotes (') to avoid interpretation. '' (2 quotes) represents a single quote. All characters which are not letters (from 'A' to 'Z' and from 'a' to 'z') are not interpreted and so do not need to be put between quotes.

The following examples show how date and time patterns are interpreted in the U.S. locale. The given date and time are 4 July 2001 at 12:08:56 local time in the U.S. Pacific Time time zone.

Enzyme, one of the most active member of our forum, has published on his blog a tutorial showing how you can use Action(s) with DropBox and your iPhone. Its shows how you can very easily apply effects on pictures taken from your iPhone.Have a look, it will for sure give you some ideas!

Today, we are very happy to make available a release candidate for Action(s) 1.1. Version 1.1 has been in the works for a long time and we decided to make a release candidate available before we make the final release, so you get the chance of giving us your feedback about it.

Release Candidate (RC) refers to a version with potential to be a final product, ready to release unless fatal bugs emerge. In this stage of product stabilization, all product features have been designed, coded and tested through one or more beta cycles with no known showstopper-class bug.

Click on the Launch button to try Action(s) 1.1 release candidate:

So what’s new in version 1.1? Well, it contains next to a 100 new functionalities, improvements and bug corrections, including:

Action(s) is free to download and use, but it still costs money to write, support, and distribute.

This is why we are opening today a donation program. Donations are used towards hosting costs for this website, licences and hardware, and also encourage further development! That way, you can donate if you think that Action(s) worth it.

You can do your donation via PayPal. To donate, click the button below and you will be directed to the Paypal site. Donations are taken in US$, but if you have an account in any other currency, PayPal will automatically convert the sum for you.

Today we are introducing a brain new action: Convert to JPEG.If you are using Action(s) to work on your pictures you probably know that Action(s) is providing by default an action to change the type of image. It allows you to easily convert any picture, whatever its format is, to another format, including JPEG.For most of us, this action is just what we need: easy to use and easy to configure. But if you are an advance user, you for sure have noticed that "Change the Type of Image" apply a default quality rate to the JPEG pictures it creates (usually 80%), and you might want to be able to define a quality rate that fit your needs.

The Convert to JPEG action is for you. It converts any picture into a JPEG file with the quality rate indicated. Download it right now from the More Actions webpage or by clicking on "Get more actions..." in the "Help" menu of Action(s).

the update will download automatically next time you will start Action(s) from your desktop or by clicking on this the launch button below:

Action(s) 1.0.1 release content:

"Copy file" action: Now prevent from coping a folder into itself or one of its sub-folders. Prior to this release, Action(s) was generating an infinite number of sub-folders within the destination folder.

"Get URL" action: Selected lines backgrounds were white instead of using the system colors.

"Show notification in tray bar" action: Mac OS X - The notification windows is now using the system colors.

Variable selection combo box: Selected lines backgrounds were white instead of using the system colors.

Some actions were displaying an incorrect version number (1.1 instead of 1.0.1)

"Split files" additional actions: An error message was displayed when adding one of the actions in the workflow. Users of the "Split files" additional actions can download the latest version at http://app.jbbres.com/actions/more

Action(s) has been selected freewaregenuis pick by the famous freewaregenuis.com blog. As we are reading this website since a long time at app.jbbres.com, and loving what these guys are doing, you can imagine that this has been a great surprise for all of us.

A few selected lines:« The range of options that Actions supports, I will say, is truly impressive »« What can this program do for you? Most anything you can think of. »« Very user friendly and goes a long way towards making this application accessible and easy to learn »« There’s no syntax to learn and no libraries or functions to deal with; the experience is closer to building a Lego than writing code. »And my personal favorite : « I’ve been playing with this software for a couple of days and I just love it. The developers have done an astounding job making this software both powerful and accessible. »

It’s a double one for Action(s) today:First, Action(s) turns one this month. Even if most of you know Action(s) only since June (when we released the first public beta), we started working on Action(s) in September 2009. Already one year ago.And the second one is the official release of Action(s) 1.0 today. From now on, no more beta! We are officially live!

If you were already using the beta or release candidate version of Action(s), the update will download automatically next time you will start Action(s) from your desktop or by clicking on this the launch button below:

It has been almost a month since we haven’t post anything on the blog. Well, it’s always like that in summer, everything is a little bit slow... (note: this is a bad excuse: we are located in Sydney, Australia and it isn’t summer here...).

Anyway, we are publishing today a new version of Action(s). You will spot immediatly what this version brings:

Yep, you can now search the library of actions. That’s a very useful function, so we hope you will like it.

Plus, this version is tagged RC. This means that, except for major issue, this will be the last version before the final 1.0. We are very excited about that!

So, as always, the update will download automatically next time you will start Action(s) from your desktop or by clicking on this the launch button below:

Great new! Action(s) has been reviewed and rated 950 / 1000 by JARS, the Java division of developer.com. With this great rating, Action(s) has entered the prestigious top 5% best rated softwares by the website.

Action(s) has beed rated 950 over a possible 1 000 points. The rating is divided in tree parts:

This week have been very busy for us at app.jbbres.com, but we are proud to release today two new great free collections of actions:

The first collection gives you control over the mouse and keyboard of the computer: the 9 actions included into this pack allows you to move the mouse over the screen, click a mouse button, press a combination of keys etc.

Some of you may have notice a strange little option in the Help menu named "Get more actions...".

Action(s) provides a lot of built-in actions to work with files, images, Internet... but depending on what you want to do, this might not be enough. Fortunatly, Action(s) is also made to support additional actions, which means that anybody with some knowledge in computer programing can create new actions and add them into Action(s).In order to help you find new actions, we have create a dedicated webpage where all extentions for Action(s) are available. You can access it by clicking on the "Get more actions..." menu in Action(s) or simply by following this link.One on the webpage, simply download the new actions you are interrested in, open the actc file and and the new actions will be instantly available within Action(s). Et voila.

But wait, that’s not all: today we are providing the very first extention for Action(s). We named it Split Files because it’s a set of actions to split big files in smaller files. It is very usefull if you want to sent files via the Internet but have a size limitation. We’re sure you gonna love it! It is available in the Get more actions webpage.

If you are a developper and you want to know how to create your own actions, remember that everything you need - API, documentation, tutorial and much more - are available in the Resources for developpers webpage.

Two weeks that Action(s) has been released now and we are still surprised every day by the incredible success it has been. You have been thousands to come give it a try and we got a lot of great reviews and feedbacks from all around the world.

During this time, we have been busy at app.jbbres.com to continue improve Action(s). We have listen to your feedbacks and have designed some new great functionalities to make workflow creation easier and safer. They are available right now in the new beta version we are releasing today. This update will download automatically next time you will launch Action(s).

Among all the new functionalities and bug corrections of this new beta version, there is one that we are very proud and that we would like to present you: in Action(s), you might have noticed that a lot of the actions need to receive input to work properly. For example, if you add an “Add Border to Image” action into your workflow, it requires to receive image files to work on, otherwise the action will have no effect.Well now, if you add such an action at the beginning of your workflow, Action(s) knows that it will have no effect and suggests you to add a matching action in front of it.

Creating your workflow and automation has never been easier.And more than ever, continue to send us your comments and feedbacks!

Today is a great day for us at app.jbbres.com. We are releasing the first public beta of our new software, Action(s).

Action(s) lets you build workflows that accomplish manual chores quickly, efficiently, and effortlessly. You don’t have to know any scripting languages or write any code. Instead, you create and execute automation “workflows” simply by dragging and dropping each individual step of a process. It’s like creating a kitchen recipe.

We are very proud of our baby. Here are some of the great features that Action(s) offers:

Easy-to-use interface: Action(s) comes with a library of dozens of actions that users can browse or search to find exactly what they need. Actions are dragged and dropped from the library to create workflows.

Mention of third-party websites and products is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. app.jbbres.com assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance or use of information or products found at third-party websites. app.jbbres.com provides this only as a convenience to our users. app.jbbres.com has not tested the information found on these sites and makes no representations regarding its accuracy or reliability. There are risks inherent in the use of any information or products found on the Internet, and app.jbbres.com assumes no responsibility in this regard. Please understand that a third-party site is independent from app.jbbres.com and that app.jbbres.com has no control over the content on that website. Please contact the vendor for additional information.